The author, Steven Malanga, outlines how the new left is organizing. Though I've not yet read the book, the reviews and the concept are pretty clearly operating here in Illinois, where BIG ED, public employee unions (SEIU) and other groups are using tax dollars to grow their numbers.

Excerpt from the blurb...

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Whereas the New Left of the 1960s believed—idealistically, if somewhat naively—that government could solve the biggest problems of our times, this New New Left is much more narrowly and cynically focused on expanding government programs to increase its own power, pay, and perks. And, as Malanga shows, the New New Left is emerging as the most powerful element of the national Democratic Party coalition.